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On 20/05/2008 03:27, gary ng wrote:
Personally, I think file association(adminstrator or not) is a bad idea for lua(and script language in general). Lua being small is anticipated to be run in a self-containing, multiple version, multiple installation manner. Doing association would probably confuse people.
I don't agree. On Windows there is more to file associations than just running a script by double-clicking on it (which is rarely useful indeed). You can set an editor, set a printing action, define drag'n'drop of files on the script, allow to search in scripts via the (poor) default Windows search, etc. See one of my previous messages for these capabilities. I even wrote once a shbang parser for Windows: associate the file to this little prog, it will read the first line of the file and will run the appropriate interpreter. I can donate that to the project if it needs it.
Now, most program installers I saw need to be run with admin privileges, it is pretty standard stuff on Windows. But having an installer doing useful stuff in a restrained account can still be useful, I suppose. Perhaps the installer should issue a warning at the start if it detects it doesn't have admin privileges. Lot of installer script languages have a function for this detection.
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